Kenny Jenks

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - DEATHS

July 20, 1993

Jenks, the nation's only AIDS patient with government permission to smoke marijuana, died Monday at his Panama City Beach, Fla., home of AIDS-related complications. He was 31. Jenks contracted HIV in the early 1980s from hemophilia treatments and transmitted it to his wife, Barbra, who died in March 1992 at age 25.